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Joe Conason: Washington Leaking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Determining which leaks are bad and which are good can be a murky process. 

Posted on Apr 28, 2006 1 COMMENT


Molly Ivins: The Great Bush Reclassification Project

It’s nice to know that the investigative reporter Jack Anderson is still under investigation, although seriously dead.

Posted on Apr 26, 2006 21 COMMENTS


Robert Scheer: Top Spys Story on Prewar Intel Is Finally Told

A jaded media ignores CBS’ well-documented revelation that the CIA clearly informed Bush that Saddam Hussein had no WMD program.

Posted on Apr 25, 2006 86 COMMENTS


Tom Hayden
Illustration by Blair Golson

Tom Hayden: Iraq—Beyond the Horizon, the Storm

The veteran social activist warns that an increasingly mainstream anti-war movement can become unwieldy, and prone to loss of focus: “We no longer are a huddling minority.... We are immersed in the gradual soul-searching currents of the mainstream, where loss of direction is a constant risk.”

Posted on Apr 25, 2006 20 COMMENTS


Iran Oil

Robert Scheer: Bush’s Nutty Nuclear Braggadocio

“A once swaggering president, who so convincingly wielded a bullhorn and modeled a flight suit, now has assumed the pretzel pose of a supplicant attempting to cajole our old enemy in Tehran into dropping its nuclear ambitions while simultaneously initiating talks with Iran aimed at bailing us out in Iraq.”

Posted on Apr 18, 2006 54 COMMENTS


Robert Scheer: Now Powell Tells Us

Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim.

Posted on Apr 11, 2006 144 COMMENTS


Molly Ivins: The Daily Drip of Special Favors for Special Interests

“While the top Bushies lunge about test-driving new wars...Congress just keeps right on cranking out those corporate goodies.”

Posted on Apr 10, 2006 18 COMMENTS


Molly Ivins: Good Riddance to DeLay’s Crucifix-Shaped Hammer

“DeLay’s professions of Christianity make me sick.... He chose to walk with the powerful and do real harm to the very people Jesus mandated we especially care for.”

Posted on Apr 5, 2006 32 COMMENTS


De_Lay Resigned
AP

Robert Scheer: ‘Anti-Christian Conspirators’ Slay DeLay

Truthdig’s editor wonders how it was that so many enemies of virtue operated under the auspices of such a Christ-like leader as DeLay.

Posted on Apr 4, 2006 56 COMMENTS


Global Warming: What, Me Worry?

“On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I’d take up a fun subject—global warming.”

Posted on Apr 3, 2006 36 COMMENTS


Immigration 101 for Beginners and Non-Texans

Ivins weighs in on immigration reform, “The Fence” and corporate America’s demand for cheap labor.

Posted on Mar 30, 2006 64 COMMENTS


Mexican Border Fence
Powell

Legalize the ‘Illegals’

“This is a moment of truth for America. It is time to acknowledge that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us, and to begin to treat them with the respect they deserve.”

Posted on Mar 28, 2006 124 COMMENTS


The White House That Cried Wolf

The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them.

Posted on Mar 27, 2006 64 COMMENTS


Panic in the Newspaper Biz

“I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying—it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”

Posted on Mar 23, 2006 14 COMMENTS


Bush Cleveland
AP/Mark Duncan

Bush Bombs in Cleveland

On the third anniversary of the beginning of his Iraq catastrophe, President Bush yet again dealt in denial, but this time the carefully screened audience at the Cleveland City Club wasn’t buying it.

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 57 COMMENTS


Digging In for the ‘Long War’

“The Pentagon has decided to fight what it is now calling the ‘Long War.’ Has anyone asked you about this? Me neither.”

Posted on Mar 15, 2006 22 COMMENTS


Iraqi woman wailing
Khalid Mohammed / AP

Bush’s Fantasy of ‘Progress’ in Iraq

“If such constant mayhem is taken as a sign of progress, three years after the U.S. invasion, then Bush will surely be thrilled by what the future holds.”

Posted on Mar 14, 2006 69 COMMENTS


Bush the Internationalist

“It’s hard to keep up with George W. Bush’s shuttles between internationalism and isolationism. You may recall ... he couldn’t even be bothered to learn the names of the Grecians and Kosovians.”

Posted on Mar 14, 2006 17 COMMENTS


It’s Enough to Give Evildoers a Bad Name

Andy takes a satirical look into the Axis of Evil and finds that its leaders occasionally enjoy a good round of trash-talking.

Posted on Mar 10, 2006 12 COMMENTS


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‘They tried to attach themselves to his virtue; then they wiped their feet with him.’--Mary Tillman

With the Pentagon’s inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand congressional hearings into the way the Bush administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.

Posted on Mar 7, 2006 44 COMMENTS


Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and chairman of Times Mirror
From nndb.com

Lifting Weights With Otis Chandler

The former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and chairman of Times Mirror, who died on Feb. 27, approached weightlifting with the same kind of passion that animated the other endeavors of his life.

Posted on Mar 6, 2006 6 COMMENTS


The Ultimate Mistake

I’m against Saddam Hussein. I’m sorry it didn’t work out the way they wanted it to. Now let’s go. Because anybody who tells you it couldn’t possibly get worse is a fool.

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 18 COMMENTS


UAE Port Deal
Ken Catalino

Dubai: Great Theater

It’s the season’s big hit, a zany farce with pompous officials in the Bush administration and their hysterical courtiers in the mass media asserting positions that are patently absurd but hilarious to watch.

Posted on Feb 28, 2006 61 COMMENTS


Division on the War at Arianna’s

At Huffington’s recent Democratic Party fundraiser, Howard Dean talked a lot, in strong language, about retaking the House but was stunningly silent on Iraq.

Posted on Feb 28, 2006 18 COMMENTS


The GOP Shell Game

With the Bush administration, it’s important to have in mind the old carnival con game: Keep your eye on the shell with the pea under it.

Posted on Feb 27, 2006 23 COMMENTS


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